Word: carburetors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Department of Agriculture reported, in the magazine Power (weekly), that they had run one of the regulation motors made at my factory, on sweepings from a grain elevator. Dust particles suspended in air will oxidize with explosion rapidity just as gas particles do. The experimenters had replaced the carburetor of their Ford motor with an arrangement of valves, pipes and a small fan, feeding the grain-dust by hand. Ignition was by spark plugs as usual, the electric current being controlled slightly differently from our way. The explosions were 'ready and frequent.' Beginnings along this line of dust...
...advantage of Diesel motors over gasoline motors in automobiles would be their simplicity of structure and absence of vibration. Instead of a carburetor and valves, a Diesel* motor has a small spray to inject fuel into the cylinder at the moment when the piston has risen and greatly compressed the air in the chamber. Compression makes the air so hot that ignition is automatic and the explosion gradual and more powerful than the complex explosion obtained with a spark plug. No generator or distributor is needed by a Diesel; no pressure oiling system. The Diesel's fuel is crude...
...headlights suggests Stutz 1912. The windshield is off a Scripps-Booth. Then there is a Packard horn, with Buick and Cole hubcaps, a Grant starter, a Maxwell steering column with Cadillac steering wheel. Pryers into the car's internals might recognize Cadillac transmission and differential, Cadillac upholstery, a Marvel carburetor from some ancient Buick, an oiling system off a 1910 Fiat, Bosch ignition from a 1908 Rourain, Ford connecting rods, and beneath all, the chassis of a prehistoric Empress...
...them, could be nothing but a pathologist's graph of a difficult neurosis (The Ray-Kandinsky) ; a lithograph of the wedding of debauched parallels (The Cloud- Feininger) ; a diagram of the unfortunate encounter of a cloud of locusts and a windmill (Abstraction-Jawlensky) ; the furious attempt of a carburetor to become a French horn (Mathematic Vision-Klee). Some of the curious, appalled, then took themselves off, hand to head; others marshaled their faculties...
...quarter kilowatt of power on engines in the laboratory, and needs only to strengthen its current for operation at a greater distance to bring airplanes in flight to a full stop and send them crashing to earth. No insulation is proof against this weapon, for if the carburetor were sufficiently protected, the ray could be so intensified as to set the wing fabric afire. Said he: "I believe that in the near future machine guns will be found only in museums...